CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> Macros are something I've done very little with. What sort
RJT> of stuff do you do with them that's useful? 

CA> Eliminating double spaces, eliminating double blank lines,
CA> reformatting text to a fixed line length while preserving the FIDO
CA> "quote" markings, 

Now _that_ one I'd like to see...

CA> adding my signature, logging the message to a log file, and then 
CA> making up others for special purposes as I go along.

BB>> think Word can also do plain text editing, but I've never tried 
BB>> it.

CA>> When in Windows I use EditPad (notepad replacement) for most text 
CA>> files. Word is overkill and seems to fight writing plain text 
CA>> although it can if you force it.

RJT> That's a good way to describe a lot of that stuff, you have to 
RJT> fight with it to get it to do what you want it to do.

RJT> I've also been fiddling with copies of web pages here, and had the 
RJT> misfortune to acquire a few that were apparently done with word. 
RJT> I've decided that it's the worst possible tool there is for web 
RJT> pages, at least in terms of what I've encountered so far! :-)

CA> I have a DOS filter that will removed most, if not all, non-ASCII 
CA> characters and then I reformat the text. :-)

There's no non-ascii in there,  but the whole bloody file is all one
"line",  for starters.  I see (in mcedit) "^M" in lots
of random places,  and should probably figure out how to use tr to change
those to space.  I'm seeing stuff like:   * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615)

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